[Novalug] thinkpad terminal emulation

[Julia Christianson]

Hi Don,

DonJr wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 00:34 -0500, Julia Christianson wrote:
> 
>>The other problem I'm having -- and this was true with CentOS, Fedora,
>>and Kubuntu -- is that using the cursor keys in vi in insert mode,
> 
> Why are you even touching anything but the "standard terminal keys"
> while using vi? <GRIN>

Heh, I was feeling around to see if I could run across them, but it
didn't work out too good.  Afraid I didn't meet vi after keyboards
began to have cursor keys ...

> And since you got a defined behavior then maybe with only a minor
> adjustment to the terminfo file are by adding a simple vi macro is all
> that's needed to get some useful results.

Ah, terminfo, that's the sort of thing I was looking for.  But I
reckon I'll need to read up on it before I go messing around with it
... I can easily imagine making the wrong change, and how do you fix
it if your terminal doesn't work?

>   Are you could just use a more feature rich editor like maybe
> notepad<sGRIN>.

Very funny.  But actually I was thinking I should find something a bit
more intuitive than vi for my sister to use when she needs to edit a
file.  Any [serious] suggestions?  I tried nano, but it's not a whole
lot more intuitive than vi.

>>  [It's a little unnerving to see
>>VT100 in that list labeled "historical" though I guess it's better
>>than "antediluvian".]
> 
> What do you mean by "VT100 in that list labeled "historical" "?

The keyboard choices in Konsole are 'linux single', 'Solaris', 'VT100
(historical)', 'VT420PC', and XFree 3.x or 4.x ... the first serious
computer I got my hands on had VT100 (well, VT102) terminals -- that's
where I learned the ascii escape sequences -- and it just came as a
bit of a shock to be labeled (historical) by extension ...

One other weird thing about this issue ... last night I was editing a
file in the shell account on my ISP (which runs Debian) and I
experienced this same behavior (but this was from my old desktop, not
the new laptop).  My first reaction was OMG, it's catching!  I know
I've never experienced it there before.  I can see a few workarounds
but it seems such a basic thing, I just feel like there should be a
simpler answer.

-- Julia